Members of the Working Group on Internet Governance have been nominated by the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
Chairman
- Nitin Desai, Special Adviser to the Secretary-General for the World Summit on the Information Society
Members
- Abdullah Al-Darrab, Deputy Governor of Technical Affairs, ICT Commission of Saudi Arabia, Riyadh
- Carlos Alfonso, Technical Director, RIT, Rio de Janeiro
- Peng Hwa Ang, Dean, School of Communication, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- Karen Banks, Director, GreenNet, Association for Progressive Communications, London
- Faryel Beji, President and CEO, Tunisian Internet Agency, Tunis
- Vittorio Bertola, ICANN At-large Advisory Committee, Turin
- José Alexandre Bicalho, Member, Brazilian Internet Steering Committee; Advisor to the Board of Directors of the National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel)
- Kangsik Cheon, Chief Operating Officer, International Business Development,Netpia, Seoul
- Trevor Clarke, Permanent Representative of Barbados to the United Nations in Geneva
- Avri Doria, Technical Consultant, Providence, Rhode Island
- William Drake, Senior Associate, International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, Geneva; Chairman, Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
- Raúl Echeberría, Executive Director, LACNIC, Montevideo
- Dev Erriah, Chairman, ICT Authority of Mauritius, Port Louis, Mauritius
- Baher Esmat, Telecom Planning Manager, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology of Egypt, Cairo
- Mark Esseboom, Director of Strategy and International Affairs, Directorate General for Telecom and Post, Ministry of Economic Affairs of the Netherlands, The Hague
- Juan Fernandez, Coordinator of the Commission of Electronic Commerce of Cuba, Havana
- Ayesha Hassan, Senior Policy Manager for E-Business, IT and Telecoms, International Chamber of Commerce, Paris
- Qiheng Hu, Adviser to the Science and Technology Commission of the Ministry of Information Industry of China; Former Vice-President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing
- Willy Jensen, Director, Norwegian Post and Telecom Authority, Oslo
- Wolfgang Kleinwächter, Professor, International Communication Policy and Regulation, University of Aarhus
- Jovan Kurbalija, Director, DiploFoundation, Geneva
- Iosif Charles Legrand, Researcher, California Institute of Technology and CERN, Geneva
- Donald MacLean, Director, MacLean Consulting, Ottawa
- Allen Miller, Executive Director, World Information Technology and Services Alliance, Arlington, Virginia
- Juan Carlos Moreno Solines, Executive Director, Gobierno Digital, Quito
- Jacqueline A. Morris, Consultant, Port of Spain
- Olivier Nana Nzépa, Coordinator, Africa Civil Society, Yaoundé
- Alejandro Pisanty, Director of Computing Academic Services, Universidad Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico-City
- Khalilullah Qazi, Counselor, Permanent Mission of Pakistan to the United Nations in Geneva
- Rajashekar Ramaraj, Managing Director, Sify Limited, Chennai (formerly Madras)
- Masaaki Sakamaki, Director, Computer Communications Division, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Tokyo
- Joseph Sarr, President, NTIC Commission, Dakar Regional Council, Dakar
- Peimann Seadat, Counsellor, Permanent Mission of Iran to the United Nations in Geneva
- Charles Sha’ban, IT Manager, Talal Abu- Ghazaleh International, Amman
- Lyndall Shope-Mafole, Chairperson, Presidential National Commission on Information Society and Development, South Africa, Pretoria
- Waudo Siganga, Chairman, Computer Society of Kenya, Nairobi
- Mikhail Vladimirovich Yakushev, Director of the legal support department, Ministry of Information Technology and Communications, Russian Federation, Moscow
- Peter Zangl, Deputy Director-General, Information Society Directorate General, European Commission, Brussels
- Jean-Paul Zens, First Counsellor, Director of the Media and Telecom Department, Ministry of State of Luxembourg
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